From BBC News:The annual catch of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean is to be cut by one fifth in an attempt to conserve dwindling stocks.
The 42-nation International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) agreed the quota cut at a meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Iccat also agreed measures to combat illegal hunting of the giant fish.
Conservation groups criticised the scale of the cuts as "weak, scandalous and inadequate".
Scientific advice prepared for the Iccat meeting concluded that catches in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean were about three times above sustainable levels.
Pressure from organisations such as WWF and Greenpeace had led some European and north African nations to back quota cuts and measures to combat illegal fishing.
A WWF study found that one in every three bluefin landed in the Mediterranean was caught illegally.
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